mississippi. that s where police officer kevin gale photographer was fatally thought during a similar confrontation with a bank robbery where investigators believe was committed by the very same suspect. a second tupelo officer, joseph maher remains hospitalized but authorities say his condition is improving. back to you. jon: our condolences to the family of officer stouffer, thank you. arthel: white house claiming major progress on obamacare. a million people signing up through the federal exchange thus far, a dramatic increase but still far short where the administration thought we would be by now. many questions remain what will happen with the health care law in the new year as people actually begin using their insurance. joining me now, to answer some of your questions, michael mahoney, senior vice president of consumer marketing at gohealth, a private company that helps people sign up for
these stories and more all happening now. jon: back to top story now. the white house releases new numbers on obamacare enrollment, more than a million people have signed up on the federal marketplace. good morning. welcome to a brand new hour of happening now. arthel: good to see you all. now experts are saying a last minute surge on the state run exchanges could push the enrollment numbers past two million but the true test begins on january 1 when people can actually start using their new insurance. jon: joining us now is joseph, an editorial board member for the wall street journal. so a million people are signed up, joseph. is that a success? well, it s certainly a success compared to before where it was, you know, several thousand people signing up. but no.
0 to be functioning better at least. that helped boost the numbers. so has the end of year deadline itself. remember this date slid a couple times of because of slowly enrollments. many consumers especially those that lost insurance plans because of obamacare may be eager to get coverage in place by the end of the year. tough compare that 1.1 million number to the 7 million that the administration says they really need to make this system viable long term. arthel: doug, when you look beyond the numbers, there are still real questions about the kind of people we re talking about, demographics, the people who are signing up for the plans? listen, the demographics issue, arthel will be a big one and probably more important than the numbers the white house is throwing around. you get to the question really who is signing up for the plans? talking about people like pajama boy, young, healthy, cream of the crop as far as the insurance industry is concerned, or are we talking about older, s
of the first three chapters of the book have to deal with and the first chapter of this book is about madame curie. why are we talking about madame curie? mechem madame curie comes to the united states in the 1920 s and the reason she comes is remember she had discovered radium, the radioactivity, the problem was she didn t patent it considers these american chemical producers making all of this money on a region and she can t even afford this much of it so that she could do her own research. so she talks to this publicist in the united states aimed missy maloney and she helps her up because what she does is start a campaign and all of these american women are going to raise money so that madame curie can have her reading them so i tell the story about this campaign. what is so funny about this, this little tiny campion says everything about not just how american women are getting defined in the period but also help american science is getting defined because she comes to the
that is amazing, and right now i just started quote koza help which is different, it s fiction. i don t normally read fiction but it s a good read. the author is pamela newkirk, the author of quote collectors from black america. thank you. thank you. .. you might ask, or you might not, you might know the answer, why do we need a women writing science series? the answer is of course that women still are not encouraged by their teachers to enter the scientific field and to stay there, which is really important , retention. that they are not promoted as much. they don t get the best jobs, they don t get the best grades. this is still, by many years of activism on women s part, something that is consistent throughout the scientific field. so, the feminist press, we put together a project and that to project directors are here, florence howe who is the founder of the press, and surely it was the program director of the whole science project, which also has a web site called